"Citizen Koch" - a documentary about the Republican Party in flux and campaign finance rules, with Wisconsin politics as its backdrop - will have its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January.

David and Charles Koch are billionaires who support conservative causes and politicians, including Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Here is the Sundance catalog description. | Nov. 28, 2012»Read Full Blog Post(29)

A week ago, Fall Out Boy was still officially on hiatus, as far as the public knew. Now its back with a new single, a forthcoming album and a U.S. tour that kicks off at the Eagles Ballroom at the Rave May 14.

"My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)" is its first single since 2008 album "Folie a Deux," and one of four new songs on sale at iTunes reviewed in the Singles Scorecard this week. | Feb. 6, 2013»Read Full Blog Post

Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis. By Mark Binelli. Metropolitan. 320 pages. $28.

Performing in November at the Joe Louis Arena in downtown Detroit, Madonna - a Michigan native who was raised in the Detroit suburbs - told the crowd how good it was "to be back home." "Detroit is having a comeback," she enthused. "I can feel it in my bones!"

As a native son of this once-proud city, I fervently want to believe that Madonna is right. | Feb. 6, 2013»Read Full Article(1)

The empty chair Clint Eastwood used as a surrogate for President Obama during the actor's speech at the Republican National Convention ended up in Republican National Committee chairman and Kenosha native Reince Priebus' office, the "Today" show reported Wednesday.

"All I know is that about two minutes into Clint Eastwood's speech, when I realized that he was talking to the chair and the teleprompters were off, I told my wife and a couple folks that were around me, 'let's get that chair.' " | Feb. 6, 2013»Read Full Blog Post(52)

The Grete Marks exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum is a great reminder that art history is no different than all other history: Shaped by a fairly narrow group of people and pock-marked with omissions. What’s nice about a show like this is that it re-sets one’s thinking about a storied moment in time while also correcting one of those omissions.

The storied moment in this case is the Bauhaus School (Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe – art and design heroes to a lot of us). Margarete (Grete) Heymman enrolled in the school as a young woman. It was 1921, and at the time the enlightened Bauhauslers tended to direct women toward pursuits like weaving. Apparently the school’s modern attitudes about the sexes weren’t all that modern after all. Walter, Paul, Wassily, Ludwig – how could you? | Feb. 6, 2013»Read Full Blog Post

For many of us, Rita Coolidge's songs are journey back to a time of bell bottoms and transistor radios. You can quench that desire for those `70s sounds tonight at Potawatomi tonight.

Over at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Olivia Gude will talk tonight about her participatory art projects, which emerged from a tradition of mural making in Chicago. | Feb. 6, 2013»Read Full Blog Post